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Policy paper

Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill 2024: policy summary

Information on the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill.

From:
Department for Education
Published
18 December 2024
Last updated
217 MarchJanuary 20252026 — See all updates

Applies to England

Documents

Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill 2024: policy summary notes (as amended in the House of Commons)

PDF, 907993 KB, 156174 pages

Details

The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill aims to change the law to better protect children and raise standards in education. The bill and its supporting documents are available on the UK Parliament website.

A regulatory and equalities impact assessment is available.

The policy summary contains information on the measures within the bill. It sets out:

  • what the government aims to achieve through each measure
  • why we need the legislation
  • effects of the legislation
  • how the legislation will work in practice

ARefer versionto the National Archives for previous versions of the the document:

The Keeping children safe, helping families thrive policy statement outlines the bill’s measures in further detail.

Updates to this page

Published 18 December 2024

Last updated 217 MarchJanuary 20252026 + show href="#full-history">+ show all updates

  2. Added an updated version of ‘Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill 2024: policy summary notes’ to reflect the Bill as amended in the House of Commons. The original version is available on The National Archives.

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Update history

2026-01-07 19:03
Updated ‘Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill 2024: policy summary notes’ to reflect the new government measures tabled at Lords Report stage along with a small number of other changes in line with amendments.

2025-03-21 13:05
Added an updated version of ‘Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill 2024: policy summary notes’ to reflect the Bill as amended in the House of Commons. The original version is available on The National Archives.

2025-01-28 17:45
‘Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill 2024: policy summary notes’ updated with information on the government amendment tabled on 28 January regarding the teacher pay measure.

2024-12-18 12:02
First published.